Muhammed El-Hasan

business writer

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Aircraft manufacturing

The F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet was excluded from President Barack Obama’s budget request Tuesday, which could spell the end of the program and cost Northrop Grumman Corp. 900 jobs at its El Segundo plant.The $3.9 trillion fiscal year 2015 budget request to Congress includes no new orders for the aircraft carrier-based Super Hornet and its electronic warfare version known as the EA-18G Growler.Without more Super Hornet orders, whether from the Navy or foreign...